CSEC8



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CSEC8 – Curved quadrilateral section element

Description

Defines a planar 2nd order eight-noded element used in the definition of arbitrary beam cross-sections.

Format

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

CSEC8

EID

PID

G1

G2

G3

G4

G5

G6

 

 

G7

G8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

CSEC8

10

100

3

4

5

6

13

14

 

 

15

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field

Contents

EID

Element identification number.

No default (Integer > 0)

PID

Identification number of a PSEC section property entry.

Default = EID (Integer > 0)

G#

Identification number of GRIDS section grid points.

No default (Integer > 0)

Comments

  1. Element identification numbers within a section definition must be unique with respect to all other element identification numbers within the same section definition.

  2. Grid points G1 through G8 must be numbered as shown here:

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  1. This entry is only valid when it appears between the BEGIN,HYPRBEAM and END,HYPRBEAM statements.

See Also

Optimization of Arbitrary Beam Sections

Arbitrary Beam Section Optimization

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